The life cycles of port assets are extended, and the likelihood of defects that influence normal port activity is reduced due to smart maintenance systems. (Credit ...

An expert crane operator, with years of experience, can handle all this and move his complicated load without it swaying. (Credit: 652234/Pixabay) Hoist Magazine began writing about anti-sway systems ...

The automation-ready lifting tong can be adapted to a rigid mast crane, a wire rope hoist, or an existing crane, in various capacities and duty cycles. (Cjp24/Wikipedia) Loads come in almost infinite ...

A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution. (Credit: Glenn van de Wiel on Unsplash) A crane or hoist with a hook on the end seems a clear and simple solution to most ...

It is not long ago that digital control systems began appearing on overhead cranes. They offered such things as anti-sway control, collision prevention and true vertical lifting of loads – all of them ...

A properly maintained hoist, used as it should be by a trained and competent operator, is generally speaking a safe machine. Nevertheless its purpose is to lift a load to a height, which is an ...

As part of the process of preparing waste from Hinkley Point A and Berkeley for long-term storage, Magnox commissioned modular intermediatelevel waste encapsulation plants (MILWEP) that would package ...

Not everyone in the hoistand crane-making industry appreciates just how complex the requirements for a crane at a nuclear-licensed site has to be. Or, to put it another way, “a lot of people in the ...

The automotive industry was hit hard by Covid-19 and countries that were heavily impacted by the outbreak included China, which saw a disruption in spare parts exports; its Hubei province, the ...

The jacking system contains a dedicated proprietary control system that optimises the system’s load distribution, specifically for turbine and foundation installation. (Credit: Glennyman/Wikipedia) ...

Without brakes no hoist system could operate successfully. Not only must loads be lifted and then moved in some way on rails, trolleys, gantries to be placed elsewhere, they must also be stopped from ...

Crane performance has been improved in recent years by variable frequency drive (VFD) technology, offering benefits such as smoother acceleration and deceleration, which in turn lead to faster and ...